Angela Merkel injured in skiing accident

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has injured her pelvis in a cross-country skiing trip during her Christmas vacation and will have to be mostly bound to bed for the next three weeks, her spokesman said Monday.

As a result, the chancellor has canceled her visit to Warsaw that was scheduled for Wednesday and canceled a meeting with Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, said Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert.

She will have to remain lying down as much as possible in the next three weeks and several visits will be cancelled, Seibert said.

She also suffered severe bruising in the accident.